Events from the year 1810 in France.
Incumbents Emperor – Napoleon I
Events 6 January - Treaty of Paris ends war between France and Sweden. 10 January - Marriage of Napoleon and Joséphine de Beauharnais is annulled.
11 March - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria. 26 April - Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo begins. Spanish garrison besieged by French forces. 9 July - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland. 9 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo ends in French victory. 24 July - Peninsular War: Battle of the Côa. 25 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Almeida begins. French lay siege to British and Portuguese forces. 20 August - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Grand Port, Mauritius. French victory over British fleet. 21 August - One of Napoleon's marshals, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, was elected crown prince of Sweden. 27 August - Peninsular War: Siege of Almeida ends with French victory. 27 September - Battle of Bussaco, Anglo-Portuguese victory over the French. Peugeot engineering business established. Dominique Larrey makes the first ambulances. 5 November – Salon of 1810 opens at the Louvre in Paris
Births
January to June 17 January - Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, painter (died 1871) 21 January - Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, General (died 1892) 4 February - Alexis Soyer, chef (died 1858 in the United Kingdom) 8 February - Eliphas Levi, occult author and magician (died 1875) 25 March - Pierre-Jules Mêne, sculptor (died 1879) 4 April - Désirée Gay, socialist feminist (died c.1891) 8 April - Hégésippe Moreau, poet (died 1838) 13 April - Félicien-César David, composer (died 1876) 23 April - Eugène Belgrand, engineer (died 1878) 28 June - Célestin Joseph Félix, Jesuit (died 1891)
July to December 14 July - Aristide Boucicaut, creator of Le Bon Marché department stores (died 1877) 21 July - Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist (died 1878) 4 August - Maurice de Guérin, poet (died 1839) 15 August - Louise Colet, poet (died 1876) 16 August - Eugène Hilarian Abadie, U.S. Army surgeon (died 1874) 12 September - Ernest Courtot de Cissey, General (died 1882) 22 September - Louis-Auguste Desmarres, ophthalmologist (died 1882) 29 October - Sophie d'Arbouville, writer (died 1850) 8 November - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (died 1861) 7 December - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (died 1882) 11 December - Alfred de Musset, dramatist, poet and novelist (died 1857)
Full date unknown Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux, actress (died 1856) Baron de César Bazancourt, military historian (died 1865) François Edmond Eugène de Barlatier de Mas, naval officer
Deaths
January to June 1 March - Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter (born 1736) 2 May - Jean-Louis Baudelocque, obstetrician (born 1745) 21 May - Chevalier d'Eon, diplomat, spy and soldier who lived the first half of her life as a man and the second half as a woman (born 1728) 29 May - François-Urbain Domergue, grammarian and journalist (born 1745) 26 June - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, airship inventor (born 1740)
July to December 12 August - Étienne Louis Geoffroy, entomologist (born 1725) 13 August - Jacques-François Menou, General (born 1750) 19 October - Jean-Georges Noverre, dancer and balletmaster (born 1727) 23 October - Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne, General (born 1767) 26 October - Alexandre-Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont, Artillery General (born 1769) 1 December - Jean Baptiste Treilhard, politician (born 1742) 8 December - Ange-François Fariau, poet and translator (born 1747)
Full date unknown Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie, comte d'Angiviller, director of the Bâtiments du Roi (born 1730) François Cabarrus, adventurer (born 1752) Esprit Calvet, physician and collector (born 1728) Antoine-Denis Chaudet, sculptor (born 1763) Jean-Marie Morel, architect and surveyor (born 1728) François Péron, naturalist and explorer (born 1775)
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